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A hit-man is given the assignment to blow up a plane carrying a South American dictator, but when the intended target decides to switch his travel plans onto a commercial flight - full of innocent people - the hit-man's assistant gets cold feet and the plan is jeopardized.

Luis and Franco, two South American revolutionaries, plan to assassinate their country's dictator, General Ribera, as he returns by private plane from a holiday in France. Ribera decides to fly by commercial airliner instead, and the two men are forced to examine their ethics and patriotic zeal. Franco, who objects to killing the 50 other passengers, tries to prevent Luis from carrying a time-bomb onto the plane, but Luis kills him and boards with the bomb hidden in a typewriter. When Luis confronts Ribera, however, the dictator dies of a heart attack. Unable to disarm the bomb, Luis breaks a pressurized window, forcing the plane to crash-land on the island of Elba. Luis then carries the bomb into the sea, where it explodes and kills him.